A United Nations report published last week said we have about a decade to get climate change under control, which—let’s be honest—isn’t likely to happen. So break out your goalie masks and harpoon guns, a Mad Max future awaits! Now, as new research points out, we even know where on Earth the inevitable water wars are most likely to take place.

You might think glacial water melted by a virgin flame (whatever that is) would give you the purest H2O. Not quite. In fact, it'd be utter bilge compared to this delicious, laboratory-made dew, created using a combination of a vacuum chamber, titanium dioxide and a "cold finger".

Video: It’s a crucial compound when it comes to supporting life, but water has so many amazing properties that there’s a lifetime of experiments to try with what comes pouring out of your taps. It’s common knowledge that water is an effective tool for dousing a flame, but did you know that you can use water to start a fire too?

Here's something to give even Goop's "bio-frequency healing" stickers a run for the money of naive consumers: A Canadian man successfully sold slickly-marketed bottles of water with hot dogs in them as a miraculous cure-all for whatever ails customers at exorbitant prices.

It's tempting to think that the "plink" sound produced by a falling water droplet on a liquid surface is caused by the droplet itself, but new research points to an unexpected source of this familiar, yet annoying, sound. Excitingly, the researchers have also identified a neat hack to stop it.

Plastic bottles aren't great. If we could find a suitably cheap, environmentally-friendly replacement, I think everyone would be much happier. While Choose Water's alternative, crafted from paper pulp and "secret" materials, isn't quite there yet, the fact it degrades in months, rather hundreds of years, is already an excellent start.

You may have heard the theory that asteroids are responsible for Earth's water. You may also have thought, hah, there's no way that asteroids could have brought all that water to Earth. But fake asteroid impacts are now demonstrating that, yeah, maybe they did.

Testing of 259 plastic water bottles from nine counties revealed microplastic particles in water from 242 of the bottles, according to a new report. The test has prompted the World Health Organisation to review the issue, though there is no firm evidence that the presence of microplastics would make bottled water unsafe to drink.

H20 is oh-so very weird. It's on the lighter side of gases, but it's one of the denser liquids. It's got an abnormally high freezing and melting point, and it is densest when four degrees above its freezing point, where it changes from a liquid to a solid. A new paper seems to show a source for that weirdness.

Here is an ice cube you do not want to put in your Diet Coke: A solid lattice of oxygen atoms with protons whizzing around inside of it. This ice is not normal on Earth, but might be elsewhere. And scientists have created it in a lab.

You're definitely familiar with water's freezing point: 0C. But that isn't the coldest water could be. "Supercooled" water is water that exists below that point. Scientists in a few labs lab have now made the coldest water yet.

From the moment that seven Earth-sized planets were discovered in orbit around TRAPPIST-1 -- an ultracool dwarf star located 39 light years away -- astronomers have been busy trying to learn everything they can about this intriguing star system, particularly its potential to foster life. Recently, an international team of scientists used the Hubble Space Telescope to assess the chances of water existing on these planets -- and the results are promising.

Video: We've all made a tiny ping-pong ball float on a hair dryer, but what YouTube's Veritasium is demonstrating here -- a giant Styrofoam ball floating on the side of a thin stream of water -- seems to contradict every scientific law governing our universe. But there is an explanation as to what's happening.

On Wednesday, Michigan's Attorney General announced it will charge Nick Lyon, the Health and Human Services Director, with involuntary manslaughter for his role in the Flint water crisis. During the crisis, caused in part by substandard water treatment, 100,000 residents were exposed to elevated levels of lead, a dangerous neurotoxin, and were at elevated risk for Legionnaire's disease, a waterborne illness linked to 14 deaths in the city since 2014.

Manufacturing 2,000 litres of drinkable water, extracted from the air (using renewable energy), at a cost of less than two cents per litre.

That's the challenge set to those entering the Water Abundance XPRIZE, where 98 teams from 25 countries will compete for the $1.75 million. Four Australian teams will take on the challenge, and we spoke to Hydro Harvest Operation (H20) about how they plan to win.

Our little red neighbour may be a rocky red wasteland now, but a lot of people think it was once an ocean-covered world just like our own. After scientists found some evidence of flowing water back in 2015, folks started to take these claims even more seriously. Heck, maybe Mars even supported life.